extended
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(s) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- a drawn-out argument
- an extended discussion
- a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law
- a prolonged and bitter struggle
- protracted negotiations
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(a) fully extended or stretched forth
- an extended telescope
- his extended legs reached almost across the small room
- refused to accept the extended hand
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(s) drawn out or made longer spatially
- Picasso's elongated Don Quixote
- lengthened skirts are fashionable this year
- the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes
- a prolonged black line across the page
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(s) beyond the literal or primary sense
- "hot off the press" shows an extended sense of "hot"
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(s) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England
- extended farm lands
- surgeons with extended experience
- they suffered extensive damage